UCW-GA Statewide Committees and Officers
UCW-GA Steering Committee
The Georgia Steering Committee is elected by UCW-GA members to carry out administrative tasks delegated to it by the Local and/or the Georgia General Membership.
Email: [email protected]
Local Executive Board Representative for Georgia: Keegan Brooks
Unit Chair: Julie Carmine LaCorte
Unit Vice Chair: Paul Grant
Unit Treasurer: Andrew Zhao
Unit Secretary: Moss Joslin
The functions of the Georgia Steering Committee include fostering membership growth and development, facilitating cross-campus connections, serving as public spokespersons, connecting members with resources, promoting leadership development, and administering democratic procedures—including meetings of the statewide General Membership—which enable the membership to exercise its authority to govern itself. See also UCW-GA's Points of Unity #8, "A democratic labor union".
UCW-GA Budget Committee
The Georgia Budget Committee assembles a statewide budget and manages UCW-GA's day-to-day financial operations.
Committee Chair: Andrew Zhao
Email: [email protected]
UCW-GA Communications Committee
The Georgia Comms Committee manages public relations on behalf UCW-GA as a whole, creates promotional materials, and administers online media including this website.
Committee Chair: Keegan Brooks
Email: [email protected]
UCW-GA Legislative Committee
The Georgia Legislative (or "Leg") Committee proposes statewide legislative priorities, recommends electoral endorsements, drafts strategic implementation plans for UCW's political priorities, and lobbies elected officials, including by organizing an annual UCW-GA Lobby Day at the State Capitol.
Committee Chair: Jill Penn
Email: [email protected]
UCWSE Committees
United Campus Workers of Georgia is a division of United Campus Workers Southeast (UCWSE), Local 3821 of Communications Workers of America, an international union affiliated with the AFL-CIO.
Our members are encouraged to join and participate in UCWSE standing committees, which include:
- Human Rights and Equity Committee
- Personnel Committee
- Communications Committee
- Finance Committee
- Legislative-Political Committee
- Organizing Committee
- Women’s Committee
For information about getting involved with UCWSE committees, please contact a member of the UCWSE Local Executive Board or the UCW-GA Steering Committee. More information about UCWSE committees can be found in the UCWSE Bylaws.
UCW-GA is the Georgia unit of UCWSE
Our members use lots of different words for "what UCW-GA is"—a unit, a "statewide", or simply our union—but to clarify:
- United Campus Workers of Georgia is a division of of CWA Local 3821, United Campus Workers Southeast.
- In CWA, such divisions are typically called bargaining units and represented by a member of the Local Executive Board (LEB).
- Georgia's LEB representative serves on the Georgia Steering Committee as an ex officio member.
- Since our State Legislature prevents public sector workers in Georgia from collectively bargaining for fair pay and decent working conditions, it may not make sense to call UCW Georgia a bargaining unit. But when connecting with others in CWA and in other unions, saying "our unit" will probably make more sense to them than "our statewide".
- In United Campus Workers Southeast's Bylaws, Article V states the role of the Georgia Steering Committee in union governance:
- to take action and make decisions in matters delegated by the membership or by the Local Executive Board.